If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human ...sentiment, the opportunity is his own--the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple--a few plain words--"My Heart Laid Bare." But--this little book must be true to its title.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; ...therefore my words have been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root gro...ws old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant. But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements--surel...y you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And he thought to himself...., 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to h...im, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in band...s of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Jesse had a wife, a mourner all her life And the children they were brave,... But the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard He laid Jesse James in his grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I fell her finger light Laid pausefully upon life's headlong train;--... The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »